Gilo of Paris

Gilo of Paris (* before 1100 in Toucy , † after March 1, 1139 in Rome ) was a Middle Latin poet and Cardinal Bishop of Tusculum from 1123 to 1139.

Life

Gilo studied in Paris , became a monk in Cluny in 1119 and, at the request of Pope Calixt II, came to Rome in 1120, where he went to Poland as a papal legate around 1124 to Bolesław III. and was later sent to Hungary. During the schism of 1130 Gilo stood up for the antipope Anaklet II , also from Cluny. While still in Paris, the poet added six books in rhyming verse to the epic about the First Crusade begun by Fulco, according to the oldest source and with his own news (e.g. death of King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1118). In Rome in 1120 he wrote a vita of the important abbot and saint Hugo von Cluny(† 1109) at the request of his successor Pontius von Melgueil in a panegyric tone and stylish rhyming prose.

literature

• Barlow, Frank: The Canonization and the Early Lives of Hugh I, Abbot of Cluny. Analecta Bollandiana vol. 98 (1980)
• Karol Maleczyński: Studia nad dokumentem polskim. Wrocław 1971, pp. 150–169
• JM Brixius: The members of the cardinal college from 1130–1181. Berlin 1912, p. 31 no.1
• Rudolf Hüls: Cardinals, Clergy and Churches of Rome: 1049–1130. Tübingen 1977, pp. 70, 84, 142-143 as Aegidius
• Hans-Walter Klewitz : Reform Papacy and Cardinals College. Darmstadt 1957, pp. 225-226 as Aegidius
• Historia Vie Hierosolimitane. Ed. and trans. CW Grocock and JE Siberry, Oxford 1997
• Chris W. Grocock, Elizabeth Siberry: The Historia vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris, and a Second. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

Web links

• Paris, OSBClun., Gilles of. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 23, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Dionysius (Divizo)	Cardinal Bishop of Tusculum 1123–1139	Imar